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NHS Trust fined for glutaraldehyde exposure

Prosecutions and Claims | 19.08.2008

Employee counselling: increasing performance

Richard Snowdon | Features | IIRSM Newsletter | 15.08.2008

Employment assistance programmes (EAPs) can reduce an organisation's costs due to employees' work stress and absence and increase workers' efficiency and commitment and overall work performance. Richard Snowdon is the Business Director of RSCPP, a website which offers bespoke EAP solutions. Here he discusses the value that EAPs can bring to both employees and organisations.

Firm ignored vibration symptoms

Prosecutions and Claims | 08.08.2008

Cases in point: stress

Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 08.08.2008

Lawrence Bamber reviews the most important common-law cases which have been brought to court as a result of poor stress risk management, in the latest of his revision guide for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma.

Moving targets: dynamic risk assessment

Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 07.08.2008

Traditional risk assessment is about identifying risks in the workplace so that you can implement suitable controls. Lucie Ponting and Jocelyn Dorrell look at how dynamic risk assessment can help employees manage risks as they arise.

Working with arthritis

Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 07.08.2008

Arthritis is the largest single cause of physical disability in the UK. It affects nine million people and - together with other musculoskeletal disorders - is the UK's second most common cause of sickness absence. Becky Allen continues our series on protecting workers with long-term health conditions.

Wembley fatality witness loses claim

News | HSP | 01.08.2008

Physios seek 'Fit for Work' pilot role

News | HSP | 28.07.2008

Decorator fined for smoking in van

News | HSP | 25.07.2008

Rolls-Royce pays £132,000 for fumes exposure

Prosecutions and Claims | 22.07.2008

New noise guide available

News | HSP | 15.07.2008

Pleural plaques consultation launched

News | HSP | 09.07.2008

SMEs: starters' orders

Paul Reeve | Features | HSW | 04.07.2008

In his series of articles on health and safety fundamentals for smaller employers, Paul Reeve covers getting new employees off to a good start.

Business Oscars to recognise SME wellbeing initiatives

News | HSP | 04.07.2008

Better health under construction

Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 03.07.2008

The construction industry's health and safety performance is under constant scrutiny. Lucie Ponting reports on the latest developments in the project to promote health standards and monitoring throughout the construction industry.

Two split £600,000 fine for Legionnaire's deaths

Prosecutions and Claims | 02.07.2008

HSE publishes annual report

News | HSP | 27.06.2008

Britain hangs on to 48-hour opt-out

News | HSP | 10.06.2008

Pressure relief: tackling stress

Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008

In the latest of his catch-up articles for NEBOSH National Diploma students, Lawrence Bamber looks at the causes and control of work-related stress in the workplace.

Working with cancer

Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008

A recent survey found that only one in four employers had policies for managing employees with cancer and less than half provided information and support to members of staff dealing with the disease. Becky Allen continues our series on protecting and supporting employees with serious medical conditions.

Getting caught in the trap: stress management

Dr Rosemary Anderson | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008

Over the last five years, the number of working days lost per year due to work-related stress (WRS), anxiety and depression has remained pretty constant, fluctuating around the 13 million mark. If employers aren't making enough progress in workplace stress management, it's because they keep getting caught in the same traps, argues Rosemary Anderson.

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